Sentences with phrase «feel empty of»

Regardless, Weisz says the courts feel empty of lawyers and many of his colleagues have been forced to lay off support staff.

There are a lot of reasons this game is garbage, I could talk about how its stuffed full of 3rd wave feminist and liberal propaganda, I could talk about the world that feels empty of content.

Not exact matches

Studies that involve divvying up money, for example, have shown that subjects would irrationally rather walk away empty - handed than feel they were cheated out of their fair share.

When someone's family feels connected to their work world, a lot of goodwill is created that helps in times of stress or when there is an empty seat at the dinner table.

Tech - savvy speaker Killingsworth shares an important aspect of happiness many audience members might miss: Leaving the present often leaves us feeling emptier than we should.

Do you feel empty and bored, and wait for two weeks of vacation to fulfill your yearly quota of fun?

In recent years, many of the stores have become cavernous, empty - feeling spaces where employees often outnumber customers.

The appearance of activity created momentum with «tons of content» and made the site feel alive, rather than a «ghost town» empty website.

«Expats value the improved QUALITY of life... the beautiful empty beaches, the camaraderie and small - town feel, the friendliness and helpfulness of the people, and the adventure of it all.

Saying prayers that were written hundreds of years ago can feel dry and empty when an ancient form is divorced from the living tradition.

I'm left with a cold and empty, ever - so - slight, feeling of an almost detached yet nostalgic melancholy.

I assumed that Sarah would feel vacuous / empty while under the burden of so much grief.

I feel empty no joy, hope no fruits of the spirit.

In this way, we are all in touch with the god of (b)-- even Hitchens who Steve Martin (and apparently you) feel led a Sad, empty life.

However, on the backside of empty ritual and religious exercises unappropriated, another danger lurks: the triumph of private feelings and the subjective captivity of the gospel.

The call to confession «invite people to get in touch with themselves and asks where they feel some empty spaces in their lives» (symbolized by a display of empty, clear plastic bags on the communion table), as if admitting emptiness were the same as confessing sin, and as if sin were merely the absence of good.

They only confess - we were blind in our distrust of being, now we begin to see; we were aliens and alienated in a strange, empty world, now we begin sometimes to feel at home; we were in love with ourselves and all our little cities, now we are falling in love, we think, with being itself, with the city of God, the universal community of which God is the source and governor.

If you're into the empty nest experience, or on the verge of it, I suggest that you each list in your growth log all your feelings about this new reality in your lives — the anxiety, grief, freedom, depression, anger, expectation, loss, remorse, emptiness, and joy.

It was not until we expressed and began to resolve our conflicted feelings of loss and release that our depression lifted and we became aware of some of the new possibilities of our empty nest.

Indeed, the inadequacy of any final dichotomy should make itself felt at both extremes: being without becoming is left an empty category, inapplicable to most things which are (Seiende), since they are in the mode of being - in - change.

We are empty of joy and we feel like a parched desert.

I'm just tired of all the empty promises of always feeling God's presence and increasing in his favor.

A number of my fellow rock - bohemians hungered to get «our 60s,» our movement that would unite our generation with purpose — it was feeling I felt throughout my 80s teenage - dom, but I became disturbed at the way the «political» longings were increasingly so content - empty, not seriously seeking any overall account of things, and thus seeming ready to embrace any ol' something to be against that would serve as an excuse to protest.

The comforting feeling in my belt of truth area has been relaxed by a hollow, empty feeling that won't go away.

When those knights headed for the Holy Land on a campaign that would cost the lives of so many of them, it was because they felt that something on earth, even though only an empty sepulcher in Palestine, was sacred and must not be desecrated.

The emptying nest brings genuine grief with its constellation of many feelings — sadness, resentment, guilt, emptiness, and depression.

Unless this process of proxy baptism is made transparent with adequate checks and balances, I as a non-Mormon do not feel their assurances are again worth more than empty promises.

And glossy checkout line headliners that splay this shock that over 40 - something women can still startlingly turn heads — as if having no wrinkle lines in your skin is somehow an accomplishment of galactic proportions and worthy of worship — and you can just be emptying your cart in checkout # 6 and end up feeling more like a piece of meat than the roast that's on sale for 1.99 this week.

But it's also the unreal, the unseen, the you - feel - it - but - can't - say - it of times of creative quiet: I'm empty and I'm tired, I have nothing from which to pull the water out of the well, there isn't a bucket or a scooper and even if I could find one, I suspicion that there isn't much in the bottom of this old well right now.

(Matthew 28:11 - 15) Certainly no opponent of the Church would try to explain the missing body with a tale like this unless they felt they had to admit that the tomb was empty to begin with.

The organist launches full volume into what she plays during the offering and we feel the music as an avalanche in the empty, echoing sanctuary; the vibration inside us penetrates to the depths of our bones and seems to shake the pew.

In the end they will find an empty pit of nothing in their spiritual needs, because to feel accomplishment humans need a bench mark to measure progress.

As the Christian comes to abandon his belief in the empty tomb and «bodily resurrection», even though he once regarded it as a sure and certain proof of the truth of Christianity, he may experience an exhilarating sense of freedom not unlike that felt by Paul when for the sake of Christ he abandoned the former things in which he trusted.

In this chapter we are simply showing that the use of the term «on the third day» does not necessarily mean that Paul was familiar with the account of the empty tomb, and that some scholars feel quite certain that he was not.

The life - feeling of bourgeois society is that of a self - sufficient finitude, but eventually a sense of emptiness ensues (cf. Tillich's later phrase «a self - emptying autonomy»).

By the time Luke was writing, the story of the empty tomb had come to be regarded as an established fact, and this is the reason why he felt free to describe the risen Jesus in clearly physical terms when he came to report a tradition that Jesus had appeared to the eleven in Jerusalem.

The ceremony felt «hollowed out,» she writes, «like the empty shell of a nut from which most of the wholesome meat has been scooped.»

And according to Paul, even the greatest, most dramatic acts of charity will leave me feeling empty if I do them out of self - interest (easing my conscience) rather than out of love (easing other people's burdens).

Do we not feel the breath of empty space?

I was following a Porsche Cayenne on the freeway yesterday, and its bumper sticker said «In case of rapture, this car will be empty» and I have to admit, I kinda felt myself hoping for the rapture because I could really use a Porsche Cayenne.

Neither the objective sense of possessing the other nor of surrendering oneself to the other is present; only the feeling of a tension released - but in an ultimately empty, non-communicative, non-unitive, way.

I applaud her courage and determination and my guess is that she is now feeling much more joy because that empty void in her has now been filled with the love of her creator.

Her words puzzled me at the time but weeks or months later, numbed by lack of sleep and overwhelmed by being the whole world to this one little person, my maternal feelings retreated and I was left feeling confused and empty, with a mewling infant in my arms.

It isn't simply the rigours of the baby stage that can empty a mother of the capacity to feel.

In her book Empty Cradle Broken Heart, Deborah Davis points out that during pregnancy, mothers and fathers often feel quite different levels of connection to their child.

Mayby that is what makes you all feel the way you do, and spend hours of your time trying to justify it by the empty void that is within yourselves.

Her extreme sorrow after the abortion is genuine, but her only source of strength is her own empty «wounded soul,» lost, as she says, «in anguish that I never imagined I could possibly feel.»

It takes courage and empathy to find your own meaning and purpose in a world that seems quite empty and cold when you let go of belief in gods, but many of us eventually feel freer, lighter, and find more potential in our godless lives.

The rest of us will just have to stumble along finding meaning in our friends, relatives and all the other things that have actual meaning as opposed to empty feel good stories that can only be seen after death.

On a dismal road to Emmaus, two people felt their hearts to be strangely warmed in an hour of empty coldness.